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Gibson's Fight Against Criminalizing Capitalism

Government overreach in the criminal-justice system takes money from taxpayer wallets, and takes jobs away from the American people.

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Henry Juszkiewicz

July 19, 2012 7:18 p.m. ET

Making its way through the House of Representatives is a bill that could help prevent companies from experiencing what happened to mine last Aug. 24. Without warning, 30 federal agents with guns and bulletproof vests stormed our guitar factories in Tennessee. They shut down production, sent workers home, seized boxes of raw materials and nearly 100 guitars, and ultimately cost our company $2 million to $3 million worth of products and lost productivity. Why? We imported wood from India to make guitars in America.